Is anyone else squeamish?

[Lorien]

Here I thought I was getting over the almost overwhelming squeamishness I had as a kid, but it seems that some of it is still there. I'm working on some freelance art related to the "Pirates of the Caribbean" sequels, and the rotting corpse pirates didn't quite disappear with the curse of the Black Pearl. Davey Jones-the villain in this one-isn't rotting, but he's still unpleasant for the squeamish. I keep telling myself that this is an opportunity to bone up on my anatomy, but I still can't wait to get this job over with!

Squeamishness is an awful trait to have during this time of year (Halloween), and is certainly a real drawback given the times, when shows like "CSI", "Fear factor" and "Supernatural" can be stumbled upon while channel surfing (or much worse; THE NEWS). My unfortunate cousin is equally squeamish, and her office is located right next to the makeup trailer for "gray's anatomy" on the ABC lot. On her first day, a woman was standing outside who was made up to look like a third degree burn victim, and she was casually swinging a fake pregnant belly on her forearm. :puke:

My mom apparently didn't inherit the squeamish gene; she can reach into the disposal to clean it out...with her BARE HANDS!

How about you? Do you share the shame of squeamishness?

[mykpart]

1. Between working as an ER clerk

and raising two sons who loved to gross me out, I got over my inherent squeamishness. Now I like to watch slasher movies, and replay the really gory parts in slo-motion!

[Jamastiene]

15. I love the gory stuff.

Can't get enough.

[BlueIris]

2. Sort of. Can I think about/watch yucky stuff...

sure. If I have to be involved in it? HELL, no. Or, at least, not without some prep time/medication.

[Lorien]

3. Lol! Funny thing is, I think I could manage in an emergency

but watch a slasher film? Nope, can't do it-not without a few martinis!

[ScreamingMeemie]

4. Squeamish fan of CSI...I just don't look at the "bad" parts....

:hi:

[crispini]

5. I am somewhat.

It only takes a few details about how meat is produced in this country to turn me into a vegetarian for WEEKS. I once read the entirety of "Diet For A New America," grossed out the entire way through, and didn't eat meat for a year. I read about how hamburger is made on the internet and have permanently given hamburger up.

But I can reach into the disposal -- I have to pull my hand out REALQUICK though! :)

[Lorien]

7. Oh, I know what you mean! "The Jungle" got me right off sausage and

hamburger in high school, and then that Oprah show that landed her in court made me stop eating red meat forever!

Hats off to you for braving the disposal! ;-)

[derby378]

6. I've set foot in the ORs at Parkland in Dallas

Developed a thousand-yard stare the first time I went in there, but now I'm more or less used to it. Takes a lot for me to get really squeamish - the climax of the swordfight between The Bride and Elle Driver in Kill Bill: Vol. 2 is one of those instances.

[Lorien]

8. Your post and mykpart's make me wonder if most of us are born

to be squeamish and then become numbed to gore after enough exposure to it. Will it be a nonexistent trait in the near future? Teens flock to films like "kill Bill" and eat them up! Tarantino offers quite a bit more gore than his predecessors. :shrug:

[bliss_eternal]

9. Oh yes! I'm very squeamish, Lorien!

I have an 'anti-gross out' mechanism that functions quite well within me. If I'm watching a movie, I have a sixth sense that enables me to know when something that will disturb me is coming, and I hide my eyes.

It's usually on-screen vomiting that I have the biggest issues with.

I'm eager to see your work when it's completed--I was a big fan of Pirates when it was released!! I saw it over and over again! Johnny Depp in full pirate regalia was pretty hot to me at least. LOL!

[Lorien]

23. Well, there's the balance; Depp is easy on the eyes! ;-)

I think he'll have to carry this one; the plot of "dead man's chest" is far too similar to "curse of the black pearl" :-(.

Yeah, I have a sense about those upcoming gross out moments in movies too! I always end up looking at the back of another theater goers head when those pop up.

[bliss_eternal]

33. Something about him w/the dredded hair

and the smeared kohl eyeliner was mesmerizing for me! :P

I'm bummed to hear that the new one doesn't seem very promising. I'm always worried when studios decide to captalize on initial success with a franchise--it's so rare that they actually do as well, or better than the first.

Shrek was the first thing in a long time that was as good as the original. Dh thought it was even better...

[Lorien]

34. Well, it's the story that isn't promising (big part, of course- basically

nearly a rehash of the first) but Depp and others might yet make it into something fun. It focuses a bit more on the Jack Sparrow character (and some new character additions to flesh him out which are amusing),so at least it will be pleasant on the eyes much of the time ;-). Yeah, I don't know why the long unkempt locks and kohl liner is so damned appealing on him-but it's hard to take one's eyes off the man when he's made up that way! (got about 10 photos of him hung up around my desk for reference-very distracting!) :9

[bliss_eternal]

37. Mmmm--your desk area sounds niiiiice!

I snuck away from dh to see it a few times alone--if that tells you anything. :P

[AccessGranted]

10. Not Squeamish but I am Turning into a . . .

Serious germ-a-phobe.

[Jamastiene]

11. I can look at just about anything, but

associated bodily smells, including some of my own will give my wretching muscles a good workout every time.

Sorry of there are typos. I'm typing one handed. No, haha, not that. I'm eating ice cream.

[miss_kitty]

12. I am squeamish

and after having radiation therapy, I became more squeamish. I can barely stand to see people fall down-even on TV in the movies or ads...Sometimes it makes me want to barf. Those Lipitor ads nearly kill me.

[xmas74]

13. Nope.

Not at all. I can withstand almost anything. I've never been squeamish, not even as a child( I hated getting shots and getting blood drawn but used to watch when they did it. I thought it was "really cool").
I used to think I'd make a darn good mortician.

[Shine]

14. I get motion sickness really easily. Does that count?

The bodily fluid stuff I can handle. I'm a mom. I've seen it all.

But I will hurl if I'm passenger on a windy road. Not pretty. For some reason, it's different if I'm driving. Not as bad. Weird.

:puke:

[catmother]

16. squeamish

years ago i was going through allergy testing. did you know that when they test you for chocolate, they use cockroach. i asked why and i was told because the roaches hatch their eggs in the cocoa beans and then the cocoa beans are ground up for chocolate. made me stop eating it for about a month.

[Lars39]

17. Squeamish here.

The first time I remember feeling sick at seeing gore was when my brother tripped and cracked his head on a sidewalk.
I took one look at him and had to lay down. I was 5.

[Elidor]

18. I had an instant conversion.

As a child, I wasn't at all squeamish, but when I was eleven, a film of open-heart surgery made me feel I was going to pass out. From that day on, I was exceptionally susceptible to squeamishness. I seem to be gradually getting over it now that I'm 40, but I still have my moments.

I think there are two kinds of squeamishness: 1)revulsion at gross stuff, and 2) extreme empathy for the pain of others. I'm losing the first, but I still have the second to an unpleasant degree. I cannot bear to see anything in pain, whether a person, an animal, even a bug. In fact, with the exception of horribly large and hairy spiders, I catch every bug that gets into my apartment and carry it outside.

[grannylib]

19. I found out last year during my hubby's recuperation from near-fatal bout

with flesh-eating bacteria that I can handle more than I thought I could...
I usually have a fairly squeamish stomach, but after his surgeries we found out it would cost $60/visit to have a nurse come in and change his dressings (we had no insurance and he was unable to work for over a year, so needless to say, we were hurtin' on the financial front) and when his surgeon asked if I could learn to change the dressings, I said "Sure! I'm not squeamish" and my brain was going, please, God, don't let me be lying...please don't let me be lying...I have to be able to do this!
And I did. Wasn't easy or fun (particularly not when I knew that in order to be doing it right, it was going to cause him pain...that really really really sucked.)
He's better now.

[Lars39]

20. I'm so glad you're husband's better, grannylib!

That had to have been an awful time.
Isn't it amazing what we can make ourselves do when we have no choice?

[grannylib]

22. Thanks, Lars39! Yes, it was rough...but you are right, we can get through

a great deal when we know we have to, and when we are acting out of love for another...
He had 8 surgeries in as many months, and it took a loooooong time to heal, but he's doing well!

[Lorien]

25. Thank goodness he recovered!

No doubt in large part to your excellent care. :toast:

[Fox Mulder]

21. The only thing I'm squeamish from is anything human.

Human blood, human guts, human fluids, human diseases. :puke: :puke: :puke:

[Shell Beau]

24. I only get squeamish when it involves real blood!!

[Pithlet]

26. I'm very squeamish

I love CSI, but I have to cover my eyes during the gross parts and tell my husband to let me know when it is over.

[anarch]

27. not the sight, but the smell...

especially gangrene, or decaying flesh. Blech! I don't know if that's squeamishness or not, but these things make me want to puke.

I also once almost passed out while looking at a particularly deep, blood-spouting cut on my hand...but that may have been the blood loss, as much as anything else....

[Shell Beau]

28. I can't say I have ever smelled gangrene! Nor do I want to.

[anarch]

29. no, you do not want to.

Trust me on this one....

[rustydog]

30. Not after 26 years of seeing shooting, stabbing victims

Not after seeing 3 chests opened inthe ER and the doc massaging the heart right there. Not after seeing intestines hanging from a combative assault victim...But vomiting does make me gulp a little bit.

[Nikia]

31. Yes, even being a biology major

In my zoology class, we had to do open heart surgery on a live frog for a lab project. Unfortunately, my lab partner was even more squeamish than I am so I had to do the cutting. After I opened then frog's chest cavity, I had to take a 15 minute break sitting in the hall with water because I felt like I was going to pass out.
Scary movies bother me too. I have a good imagination so my mind really does pretend that it is real blood.

[bliss_eternal]

32. Wow, Nikia--

I thought biology majors could handle anything. It's refreshing to hear from one that had issues with dissection. Thanks for sharing!

While I have major issues with human blood and guts, I've never had problems with animals--I know that is weird. I didn't LIKE having to cut them for dissection, but it didn't bother me like having to do HUMAN dissection would.

I honestly don't think I could handle human dissection at all! :scared:

[Lorien]

35. I don't think I could have handled the frog thing!

I'm a real bleeding heart when it comes to animals, too.

I also think empathy as well as a fertile imagination makes gorey films tough on some of us. I always find myself envisioning how it would feel to be that fictional character in the film. I just can't seem to help it!

[Dave Reynolds]

36. I would then recommend

avoiding my "Pathology O' the Week" threads.

I sometimes dig up some nasty stuff, but in the name of education.

[China_cat]

38. When you grow up helping butcher

you lose squeamishness real quick.